DAC-2015-03

DAC-2015-03 is a Native Forest from Managed Regrowth project located approximately 25km southeast of Charleville in South West Queensland. It was registered in July 2015 and covers an area of 20,799.08 hectares.

Native Forest from Managed Regrowth projects involve allowing native vegetation to regenerate into a permanent native forest by ceasing activities that suppress or destroy regrowth, such as mechanical clearing or chemical spraying. Standard methodology requirements dictate that the project area must have previously been subjected to comprehensive clearing for pastoral use and must have the potential to achieve forest cover, typically defined as reaching a minimum of 20% crown cover and trees of at least 2 metres in height.

The Charleville region is historically known for extensive pastoral operations, primarily beef cattle and sheep grazing. The area features a semi-arid climate with low, highly variable rainfall (typically averaging 400-500mm annually), and the soils largely consist of red earths, sandy loams, and clays characteristic of the Mulga Lands bioregion.

This project establishes permanent native forests through assisted regeneration from in-situ seed sources (including rootstock and lignotubers) on land that was historically subjected to at least one comprehensive clearing for pastoral use. In July 2016, a variation was made to the project to remove some previously listed areas from the project bounds. The project's proponent, Devine Agribusiness Carbon Pty Ltd, holds an active fixed-delivery Commonwealth carbon abatement contract (CAC102394), which originally committed 300,500 ACCUs from this project, with over 230,000 successfully delivered. Additionally, Devine Agribusiness Carbon Pty Ltd was acquired by major environmental markets investor GreenCollar in July 2021, marking a consolidation of carbon farming assets within the broader Australian market.